Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
April 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinism, Escherichia coli, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mind, mutations, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, organisms, PLOS Biology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Tom Bethell, yeast}

Fake Darwinism in an International Test of Experimental Evolution

_{Science & Culture
April 26, 2019

Evolution

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It’s fine to search through random results for an outcome you’re aiming for. Just don’t call it Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 25, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Big Bang, black holes, general relativity, God Hypothesis, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, podcast, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism, universe}

How Black Holes Figure in the Argument for Cosmic Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
April 25, 2019

Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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This month the world thrilled at the first ever image of a black hole, this one in the galaxy M87. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
April 25, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Bernard Carr, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Venter, Darwinism, DNA, Eugene Koonin, experimental science, fantasy, fantasy science, George Ellis, inferential science, molecular machines, multiverse, nature, North America, Ockham’s razor, proteins, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, science, science fiction, scientism}

On Fantasy in Modern Science

_{Kirk Durston
April 25, 2019

Cosmology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, capitalism, duties, indigenous peoples, National Geographic, nature, nature rights, New Zealand, rights, river, Science (journal), Western civilization}

Teen Vogue, National Geographic Push Nature Rights Further into Mainstream

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2019

Bioethics

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The story gushes that nature rights will restore ancient indigenous wisdom, meaning it will undermine Western civilization. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, abstraction, animals, apes, emotion, humans, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, perception, reality, spirituality}

Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian News, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, Eric Metaxas, evolutionary biology, fossil record, Gerd B. Müller, James Tour, Jay Richards, MIT Press, Neo-Darwinism, Rice University, Stephen Meyer}

Müller Report: Meyer on an Evolutionist’s Indictment of Evolution, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s another illustration of how the increasingly recognized inadequacies of materialist origins theories have failed to be reported to the general public. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, genes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, podcast, random mutation, unguided evolution}

Behe on Darwinism’s “Socially Inherited Dependence on Classical Yet Irrelevant Math”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 23, 2019

Evolution, Mathematics

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Professor Behe traces the errant thinking to an outdated mathematical picture taken from Ronald Fisher and his 1930 book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, anole lizards, arctic tern, birds, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, dinosaurs, evolution, finches, Galápagos Islands, global warming, Gondwana, Hawaii, Michael Behe, migration, New Zealand, PNAS}

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

_{Science & Culture
April 23, 2019

Evolution

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They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Africa, apes, atheism, BBC, bonobos, chimpanzees, Christians, church, Darwinism, Easter, Eucharist, evolution, great apes, humans, Jane Goodall, jesus, last common ancestor, Mass, materialists, meals, monkeys, neocortex, On the Origin of Species, religion, savannah}

How Did Religion “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
April 23, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Discovery Institute, doctors, Evolution News, futile care, laws, medicine, patients, Texas, values, Wesley Smith}

Before Texas Senate Committee, Smith Testifies on Medical Coercion Law, “Worst in the U.S.”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

1}

Thank you to Wesley J. Smith for fighting what’s often a very lonely fight against the increasingly dehumanizing tendency in contemporary medicine. Read More ›